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Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories. Best Practice Guidance on Recognising Protected Areas and Assigning Management Categories and Governance Types
… large-scale ecological processes with characteristic species and ecosystems, which also have environmentally and … They provide the core of efforts to protect the world’s threatened species and are increasingly recognised as … strategies; and in some cases also vehicles for protecting threatened human communities or sites of great cultural and …
Compilation of Internationally agreed environmental Goals and Objectives
… Agreed Environmental Goals and Objectives 9 of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, Convention on International Trade in … restore degraded ecosystems and promote the recovery of threatened species” Convention on Biological Diversity, art. … birds of economic or aesthetic value or to prevent the threatened extinction of any given species” Interregional: …
Pastoralism and the Green Economy - a natural nexus?
… llama and guanaco, as well as a number of non-ungulate species. Many pastoralists keep a range of different species … that guarantee production systems are supportive of threatened Pampas grassland conservation. By 2012 improved … systems such as nomadic pastoralism are increasingly threatened and outcompeted. It seeks to enact a …
Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… rights–complaint procedures to protect nature or other species have had only limited success.5 Yet with close to 115 … that the storage of radioactive waste near their homes threatened the right to life of present and future … For example, inhabitants of small island states are threatened with total loss of territory and with …
Groundwater in international law: Compilation of treaties and other legal instruments
… arid, semi-arid and/or dry sub-humid areas affected or threatened by desertification; (i) "affected countries" means … or monitored. Article 22 - Introduction of alien or new species Watercourse States shall take all measures necessary … … Groundwater in international law136 [Omitted: Annex 1 - Threatened species definition, Annex 2 - Conservation areas, …
Ramsar Technical Report 7: Ramsar Wetland Disease Manual
… – land use, pollution, abstraction, livestock, introduced species, or such like. It becomes easy to see that decisions … importance, wetlands continue to be among the world’s most threatened ecosystems, owing mainly to ongoing drainage, … likely to continue to suffer large losses to an already threatened population. CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION – Page 21 1.4 …
Change : Adaptation of water resources management to climate change
… supported. Besides reforestation of slopes with native species, participants noted that fruit trees can be used, … with permanent shrub vegetation, and that fast growing species of trees and bushes can furnish peasants with wood. … also provide a habitat for important plant and animal species and provide various recreational opportunities. The …
Guidelines for Reintroductions and other Conservation Translocations (Version 1.0)
… Version 1.0 ReintRoduction and invasive species specialist GRoups' task FoRce on MovinG plants and … Translocations The Reintroduction and Invasive Species Specialist Groups’ Task Force on Moving Plants and … has been with species that are naturally scarce or threatened, and/or are already declining, or are extinct …
Human rights and the Environment: Rio + 20 - Joint Report OHCHR and UNEP
… concerning harmful activities may prevent or mitigate the threatened harm and contribute to public support for … the needs and capacities of present generations of all species with those of the future. Combining the two … concerning harmful activities may prevent or mitigate the threatened harm and contribute to public support for …
The precautionary principle in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. An issues paper for policy-makers, researchers and practitioners
… ix well-understood activities such as harvesting of wild species or clearing forests. Threats often derive from … policy between biological indicators of threat (such as species status) and specific management responses (such as … Commission, 2000). � serious or irreversible damage: the threatened damage should be “serious or irreversible” – in …